Prescription-file



A. J. SHAUL.

PRESCRIPTION FILE.

Patented Apr. 30, 1889.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT J SHAUL, OF LONG PINE, NEBRASKA.

PRESCRIPTION-FILE. I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,488, dated April 30, 1889.

7 Application filed July 31, 1888, Serial No.281,589. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, ALBERT J SHAUL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Long Pine, in Brown county, Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Prescription-File, of which the-following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in prescription-files; and the object of my improvement is to provide a convenient, permanent, and inexpensive file for the preservation of physicians prescriptions in drugstores and pharmacies. I attain this object bymeans 0f the mechanism or device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, Fig. 2, a view of the drawer detached 5 and Fig. 3 shows the bolt and washers.

A is a box or case composed of wood orpaper boards of suitable construction to receive two or more drawers, B B. The drawers B are open at rear end and have sides the tops of which are cut slanting from a point near the front end to the rear end, by which arrangement the prescriptions are of easy access and may be readily taken hold of and turned like the leaves of'a book.

I Near the front end of the drawer is a straight filing-needle, G, nearly vertical to the bottom of the drawer, being slightly inclined to the front end of the drawer, on which the prescriptions are fastened and kept in place by the cross-rod or keeper D, which is placed across the top of the drawer near the front end, a slight distance in rear of point of the filing-needle.

The box A is provided with holes E E in top and bottom, through which are passed bolts F F, by which the box A is bolted down to a counter or shelf and by which one box or case may be fastened to the top of another as they are filled, thereby securing a continuous cabinet of drawers. The bolts F are provided with clamps or washers G G, which prevent the material of which the boxes or cases are constructed from warping or bending and keep the bolt heads and burrs from pulling through.

I am aware that prescription files have been made consisting of a case of drawers; but I am not aware that there isin use a combination specifically as set forth in this specification.

I therefore claim as'new and wish to secure by Letters Patent The boxor case A, provided with the holes E E, the drawers B, having open ends and slanting sides, the straight filing-needle O, and keeper D, in combination with the bolts F and the washers G G, whereby the boxes or cases A may be fastened to a base and to each other to form a continuous cabinet of drawers.

A. J. SHAUL.

Witness es:

H.1 1. WALKER, H. J. WHITE. 

